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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#92
I finally collected the courage to release my operating system into the wild:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400006

I'm super curious if anybody will pick it up and do something useful with it. This was a couple of years of my life and I absolutely loved working on it but having a child put a hard stop to such entertainment for many years. Now, a good 30 years later I finally found the time to resurrect it.

I'm not sure yet if I am going to do more work on it or leave it as it is, it's good enough to give someone new to OS development a running start and a foundation to build on.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#93
I'm building Kavla, its an infinite multiplayer canvas for data analytics.

I have a video on how it works on https://kavla.dev/

And a live demo here: https://demo.kavla.dev/

I've been working in the data space for five years now. Kavla is something that I personally feel would make my job more fun!

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#94
Working on a webapp for critically think with others about a problem.

The idea is that you build a diagram that contains all the details about the problem and people's thoughts on it, and it's organized in such a way that it's easy to just keep refining, down to the smallest detail. So you build this concrete, shared understanding, and move it forward and forward, until hopefully y'all can make some best decision to improve the situation.

There's a lot to do. Currently working on UX to allow hiding intermediate nodes and still have indirect edges drawn. Want to add an LLM integration to generate/update diagrams via natural language, which I think will help a lot with usage barriers to using the app.

Happy to get any feedback :) https://ameliorate.app/ https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#95
Most of our jobs consist of working with tools. Yet it’s very hard to get insights into which tools are required most, are growing in your area, etc. So I decided to keep track of tools and technologies mentioned in the data space by keeping track of job openings for the last two years. Now I’ve opened up that data set. Here’s an analysis for jobs per data warehouse: https://selectfrom.work/insights/data_warehouses

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#96

I am working on my Go UI library called gooey [1] which aims to be a one stop framework to build webview/webview apps in Go and WebASM. It started out with bindings for the DOM, Web, and Browser APIs, but as of today I now have custom Web Components support (which is a big deal considering Go's type system quirks). Tomorrow I'm gonna polish some of the UI components and start refactoring my git-evac [2] repo manageme…

Looks great! Wish Go wasm modules were smaller.

The bindings should also work with tinygo's compiler if you're careful with deadlocks (see docs/ERRATA.md).

Haven't tested the typecasting that's required for the components yet though, they might break because of some generics quirks (e.g. Wrap/Unwrap helper methods).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#97
I'm working on a partition-oriented declarative data build system. The inspiration comes from working with systems like Airflow and AWS step functions, where data orchestration is described explicitly, and the dependency relationships between input and produced data partitions is complex. Put simply, writing orchestration code for this case sucks - the goal of the project is to enable whole data platforms to be made up of jobs that declare their input and output partition deps, so that they can be automatically fulfilled, enabling kubernetes-like continuous reconciliation of desired partitions.

This means, instead of the answer to "how do we produce this output data" being "trigger and pray everything upstream is still working", we can answer with "the system was asked to produce this output data partition and its dependencies were automatically built for it". My hope is that this allows the interface with the system to instead be continuously telling it what partitions we want to exist, and letting it figure out the rest, instead of the byzantine DAGs that get built in airflow/etc.

This comes out of a big feeling that even more recent orchestrators like Prefect, Dagster, etc are still solving the wrong problem, and not internalizing the right complexity.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#98

We're building a monster trainer where you can actually teach your monster moves. Think like Pokémon the anime, but for real: https://youtu.be/ThOCM9TK_yo?feature=shared Behind the scenes, we're doing real time code gen to power the monsters! Would love feedback!

ok this is really cool. do you do procedural animations as well or it's still animated library of moves you blend?

No procedural animations yet, but soon we want to get there. We also want to do procedural VFX. There is a lot of meat in there!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#100
Still working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer

Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep adding things.

Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I'd be appreciative of hints (know of UK, Norway and might have found for France).

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